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Exploring the complex relation between minority, ethnicity and European identity, this chapter puts Deleuze's concepts to use to break with the paradigm of identity that fuels much left intellectual intervention on the question of Europe. It draws the political issues of Europe into the terrain of structure and relation through a consideration of Deleuze and Guattari's figure of the minoritarian, a concept that seems to anticipate the patterns of power and politics of contemporary global culture – ‘ours’, as they say, ‘is becoming the age of minorities’. Working through problematics of race, borders, nationhood and the state-form, minority emerges here as both a dynamic of control and the field of progressive and inventive political expression.